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...Between Judge Robert Worth Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, and James B. Brown, editor & publisher of the Herald-Post. Publisher Brown is president of National Bank of Kentucky which, involved with the Caldwell-Lea crash (see p. 19), was closed along with other local banks. Now to reopen, it promises payment in full...
Happy was Governor Horton. Happier still was Col. Lea who viewed the House's action as a turning point in his own political tide. His attorneys assured him he would be quickly cleared of the indictments against him at Knoxville and Asheville, growing out of the Caldwell & Co. crash. He expected shortly to get back his Memphis Appeal and his Knoxville Journal which have been in receivership. Then he would start battling again against the Crump faction of Tennessee Democracy, attempt to regain his lost political ascendancy in the State. Gradually in the public mind a distinction was being...
...police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from Ohio." Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate." When the policeman (whom he referred to in court as "Dick") had tried to quiet him, Fess directed his hostility at him. To the magistrate Fess explained: "I was celebrating an addition to our family four days ago. I want the court to accept my apology." He showed...
...speculated against the French franc, were fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they got in on the Wall Street boom, making so much that, even though they lost much in the crash, Wall Street gave them no coup de grace...
...Between Judge Robert Worth Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times, and James B. Brown, editor & publisher of the Herald-Post. Publisher Brown is president of National Bank of Kentucky which, involved with the Caldwell-Lea crash (see p. 19), was closed along with other local banks. Now to reopen, it promises payment in full...